The Chicago episode of Edens Lost&Found -- The
City of Big Shoulders — hosted by NPR Weekend Today's Scott
Simon, tells stories about inspirational environmental activists: Marian
Byrnes, the conscience of the Calumet; Steve Packard and Debra Shore,
preservers of a little ecosystem on the prairie; Illinois Teacher of the
Year Deb Perryman who plays real-life sustainability games with her
high-school students in Elgin; Michael and Amelia Howard, who tackle
environmental justice issues in their African-American Fuller Park
Neighborhood at their Eden Place nature school; Victor Crivello's
efforts to convert an industrial brownfield into a flourishing plain;
and finally, the story of the rough-and-tumble Mayor Richard Daley whose
"greening of Chicago" and cleaning up of the Chicago River is sometimes
tough to swallow.
Other resources for Edens Lost&Found:
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